Bandwidth Evangelist: 'Telecosm'
Good on Data, Low on Reasoning

Articulate discussion is marred by lengthy ranting.

By

Robert Templer Special to The Wall Street Journal

Updated Nov. 27, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

There is a Good George Gilder and a Bad George Gilder. The Good George Gilder writes about technology in a lucid, prescient way that is rich with research and gives full credit where it is due to the engineers and inventors who really change our world. The Bad George Gilder goes off on wild rants about the evils of government, the stupidity of television and the vapidity of anyone who doesn't agree with him.

It is this George Gilder that began his career writing demagogic gibberish about race, marriage and economics...